# agreement
## English
### Etymology

From Middle English agrement, agreement, from Old French agrement, agreement. Doublet of agrément. Morphologically agree +‎ -ment.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /əˈɡɹiːmənt/
* Audio (US):(file)
* Hyphenation: a‧gree‧ment

### Noun

agreement (countable and uncountable, plural agreements)
* (countable) An understanding between entities to follow a specific course of conduct.
    Coordinate term: conspiracy
    to enter an agreement
    The UK and US negotiators were nearing agreement.
    He nodded his agreement.
** 2013 July 19, Timothy Garton Ash, “Where Dr Pangloss meets Machiavelli”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 6, page 18:Hidden behind thickets of acronyms and gorse bushes of detail, a new great game is under way across the globe. […] The current power play consists of an extraordinary range of countries simultaneously sitting down to negotiate big free trade and investment agreements.
* (uncountable) A state whereby several parties share a view or opinion; the state of not contradicting one another.
    The results of my experiment are in agreement with those of Michelson and with the law of General Relativity.
** 1990, Stephen Barbour, Patrick Stevenson, Variation in German: A critical approach to German sociolinguistics, Cambridge University Press, page 86f:There is general agreement that, to the east, Low Saxon should be divided from East Low German (Ostniederdeutsch) approximately though quite coincidentally, along the modern border between the Federal Republic and the GDR, although there is no general agreement as to precisely where the dialect boundary should lie, or as to which isogloss should be crucial to its delineation. [...] The Low Saxon dialects are sometimes referred to collectively as West Low German (Westniederdeutsch) [...]
* (uncountable, law) A legally binding contract enforceable in a court of law.
* (uncountable, linguistics, grammar) Rules that exist in many languages that force some parts of a sentence to be used or inflected differently depending on certain attributes of other parts.
    Synonyms: concord, concordance (obsolete)
    Coordinate terms: government, regimen, rection (archaic)
** 1988, Andrew Radford, chapter 6, in Transformational grammar: a first course, Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, page 306:Having clarified what we mean by ‘Personʼ and ‘Numberʼ, we can now return to our earlier observation that a finite I is inflected not only for Tense, but also for Agreement. More particularly, I inflects for Person and Number, and must ‘agreeʼ with its Subject, in the sense that the Person/Number features of I must match those of the Subject.
* (obsolete, chiefly in the plural) An agreeable quality.
** 1650, John Donne, Elegie XVII:Her nymph-like features such agreements have / That I could venture with her to the grave [...].

#### Synonyms

* (An understanding to follow a course of conduct): concord, convention, covenant, meeting of the minds, pact, treaty; See also Thesaurus:pact
* (A state whereby several parties share a view or opinion): congeniality, concurrence, harmony, accord; See also Thesaurus:agreement
* (A legally binding contract): settlement
* (An agreeable quality): amenity, pleasantness, niceness

#### Derived terms

* agreement as to succession
* agreement conferring jurisdiction
* agreement coorporation
* agreement in principle
* agreement on the choice of court
* anti-agreement
* antiagreement
* Buttonwood Agreement
* Chequers agreement
* choice of court agreement
* choice of forum agreement
* collective agreement
* collective-bargaining agreement
* concession agreement
* conditional agreement
* contractual agreement
* definitive agreement
* disagreement
* double tax agreement
* end user license agreement
* end-user license agreement
* executive agreement
* financial agreement
* forum selection agreement
* framework agreement
* gentleman's agreement
* gentlemen's agreement
* heads of agreement
* in agreement
* interagreement
* interest rate agreement
* knock-for-knock agreement
* legal agreement
* letter agreement
* margin agreement
* midnuptial agreement
* misagreement
* monstrous agreement
* Multilateral Agreement
* nonagreement
* non-disclosure agreement
* nondisclosure agreement
* option agreement
* partnership agreement
* portmanteau agreement
* postnuptial agreement
* prenuptial agreement
* prenuptual agreement
* purchase agreement
* raging agreement
* sales agreement
* Schengen Agreement
* security agreement
* service agreement
* service level agreement
* settlement agreement
* shareholders' agreement
* single union agreement
* Smithsonian Agreement
* standby agreement
* standstill agreement
* strike an agreement with
* subordination agreement
* subscription agreement
* throughput agreement
* time agreement
* tolling agreement
* trade agreement
* tripartite agreement
* unagreement
* underwriting agreement
* working agreement
* works agreement

#### Related terms

* agreeance
* agreed
* agreed upon

#### Translations

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#### See also

* approval
* consent

### See also

* consensus
* agreement on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

### Anagrams

* metagenre

## Italian
### Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English agreement.

### Noun

agreement m (invariable)
* agreement (pact, accord)

### Anagrams

* egramente, magnerete, mangerete

## Middle English
### Noun

agreement
* Alternative form of agrement

## Romanian
### Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English agreement.

### Noun

agreement n (uncountable)
* agreement